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[21 Jun 2024 | One Comment | 3,212 views]
Opening a Credit Card at a Department Store Will Lower Your Credit Score

While on a shopping spree, you open credit-card accounts at several of your favorite department stores to snap up discounts of 10% or 15%. You’re saving a bundle, but you may be chipping away at your credit score.

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[18 Jun 2024 | No Comment | 2,778 views]
Wells Fargo is Now Offering a Free Credit Score Check

Wells Fargo customers will have free access to one of their credit scores and credit reports until November 16, 2014 in conjunction with the American Bankers Association’s annual campaign “Get Smart About Credit.” It’s the third year of this promotion, according to a news release from Wells Fargo and it requires customers to visit a local bank branch to obtain their personal access codes for the data.

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[14 Jun 2024 | 2 Comments | 3,388 views]
Closing Multiple Zero-Balance Credit Card Accounts Will Lower Your FICO Score

In an effort to clean your cluttered finances, you close three zero balance credit card accounts. Lightening your wallet feels good now, but the potential hit to your FICO Score could weigh you down later.

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[14 Jun 2024 | No Comment | 2,716 views]
Creditors are Making Their own Social Media Credit Score and Credit Report System

CoreLogic and FICO partnered last year to offer lenders an alternative credit score for more predictive scoring, which includes data previously not used in credit scoring, from a borrowers cell phone bill, utilities, payday loan activity, to child support judgments, evictions, property tax liens, the status of homeowner’s association dues, whether or not a borrower is underwater on their current home, or whether a borrower owns other properties that credit agencies typically miss.

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[13 Jun 2024 | No Comment | 7,625 views]
Credit Score Needed for Bed Bath & Beyond Store Credit Card

The Bed Bath & Beyond Store brand Credit card is actually one of the better Credit cards offered by big brand retails if you qualify for it — it’s offered through U.S.Bank. This handy card offers no annual fee which a lot of other retails that offer credit cards do. Also, the Bed Bath and Beyond card is set up on a points program so that every dollar you spend on the card will accumulate points that can be used at the store for some amazing deals.